Safety laundry tag



Feb. 16, 1932. C H R 1,845,869

SAFETY LAUNDRY TAG Filed April 25, 19:51

INVENTOR ATTOR NEWS Patented Feb. 16, 1932 UNITED STATES JAGOB C. FISCHER, F PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY SAFETY LAUNDRY TAG Application filed April 25,

This invention relates to identification tags for garments and more particularly to attaching means for tags to the fabrics of garments and has for the primary object, the provislon of a device of the above stated character which may be easily and quickly applied to the garment without danger of injury either to the person applying the tag or the fabric of the garment during the laundering and cleaning thereof and also will permit the garment to be worn with the tag still applied without the danger of injuring the wearer.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a tag of the above stated character which will have all of the foregoing efiiciencies and still may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively small cost and at a cost approximately the same as that of tags now in use and which have proven from actual use to be dangerous to persons while handling or wearing the garment and also injurious to the fabric of the garment.

With these and other objects in view, this invention consists in certain other features of construction, combination and arran ement of parts, to be hereinafter more fu ly de scribed and claimed.

For a complete understanding of my invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in

which Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating a tag applied to a fragmentary ortion of a garment, constructed in accor ance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view illustrating the tag partially applied to the garment.

Figure 3 is a plan view illustrating the fastening means applied to the body of the tag prior to being applied to a garment.

Figure 4 is an end view illustrating the tag.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating the tag applied to the garment.

Figure 6 is a perspective view illustrating one of the fasteners.

Figure 7 is a plan view illustrating the blank of the fastener.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the body of an identification tag to be employed on garments which 1931. Serial No. 532,901.

are to be laundered or passed through a cleaning process and the body is preferably constructed from a single piece of fabric of a suitable quality and treated in any well known manner so that ink or like fluids may be applied thereto in the form of suitable characters for identification purposes without the possibility of the ink or like fluid running or staining the fabric of the garment to which the tag is applied. The fabric or material of the body 1 is first bent to provide flap portions 2 and the majorportion 3 which is folded as illustrated at 4 over the edge or sea-m of a garment as shown in Figure 1. The major portion 3 of the body 1 provides a pair of faces on which characters may be written, stamped or otherwise applied. These characters may be in the form on one face of identification numbers, while the other face may bear characters in the form of remarks.

The body 1 is secured to the garment by fasteners 5 and each comprises a blank 6 con structed from any metal suitable for the purpose and one which will not corrode or rust but will be easily bendable and will retain any position which it may be bent into. The blank 6 is severed or cut to form tongues 7, 8 and 9. The tongue 7 is located within the the marginal edges of the blank as clearly shown in Figure 7 while the tongue 8 extends in an opposite direction to the tongue 7 and lies at one edge of the blank and the tongue 9 extends in the same direction as the tongue 7 and projects beyond one end of the blank. The tongues are bent upwardly and at right angles to the blank as shown in Figure 6 ready for application to the body 1. Each body is rovided with a pair of fasteners 5 and the lanks are placed between the flaps 2 and the major portion 3 of the body 1 as shown in Figure 3 and the tongues 7 are passed through one of the flaps and bent over as shown in Figure 2 for effectively securing the blanks to the body. The blanks of the fasteners 5 are then bent intermediate their ends to support the body as shown in Figure 1 ready for application to a garment with the tongues 8 and 9 assing through the other flap of the body. 11 applying the device to the garment 10 as shown in Figure 2, the tongues 8 and 9 are passed through the fabric of the garment and then bent over against one face of the fabric. The tongues 8 and 9 of each blank or fastener 5 when bent over extend in opposite directions to each other and if desired the tongues9 may only be passed through the fabric of the garment while the tongues 8 are folded over the edge of the garment. The device thus secured to the garment may be folded tightly against the garment concealing the tongues and preventing the tongues from contacting or inj uring other garments when passing through the cleaning process and also will be prevented from injuring persons handling the garments.

WVhile I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that minor changes in construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be made Without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, as claimed.

Having I claim is:

A laundry tag comprising a character hearing body of a single piece of material bent upon itself to provide flaps terminating adjacent each other, bendable strips located between the fiaps and the major portion of the body and adjacent the side edges thereof to hold said body to overlie opposite faces of a piece of fabric, tongues on said strips and extending through and bent against one of the flaps, and tongues on said strips and extending through the other flap and through the piece of fabric and bent into engagement with the latter. 7

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JACOB O. FISCHER.

thus described my invention, what 

